Roger E. Ailes

News about Roger E. Ailes, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 20, 2014

Janet Maslin reviews biography The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman. MORE

Jan. 13, 2014

David Carr The Media Equation column assays book The Loudest Voice in the Room, Gabriel Sherman's new unauthorized biography of Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes; says Sherman's portrayal of Fox News is hardly shocking, but it is not a pretty picture, and Ailes must know that. MORE

Jan. 8, 2014

Book The Loudest Voice in the Room by Gabriel Sherman, 560-page biography about Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes being published in January, aims to be exhaustive look at the television executive’s life and monumental career; book, in months before publication, has drawn sharp criticism from chorus of people connected to Fox News. MORE

Aug. 21, 2013

Fox News Channel confirms reports that chief executive Roger Ailes fired Brian Lewis, one of his longest-serving and closest lieutenants, for what it called 'issues related to financial irregularities, as well as for multiple, material and significant breaches of his employment contract;' company initially declined to comment on reports about Lewis. MORE

Mar. 6, 2013

In an excerpt from “Roger Ailes: Off Camera,” Mr. Ailes, the head of the Fox News Channel, takes aim at Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Newt Gingrich, among others. MORE

May. 6, 2012

Bill Keller Op-Ed column asserts that even though Rupert Murdoch's media holdings in Great Britain are embroiled in scandals, Fox News is Murdoch's most toxic legacy; uses the example of three competing biographies of Fox News head Roger Ailes to illustrate the news network's tenuous commitment to true journalism. MORE